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First Letter 📝 - Beginning the adventure 🧑🏻‍💻🚀

"...all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us..."

Have you ever wondered what the future will look like? If you’re asking, “Why should I care?” consider this: the quality of your life depends on your decisions, and those decisions are shaped by your vision of the future.

To visualise or predict the future, or even to help shape it, we need to be aware of groundbreaking breakthroughs. We must understand why they are relevant and what potential they hold. We should keep ourselves informed about exciting events happening around the globe, engineering challenges, and the solutions scientists propose for open problems. These are the missing pieces of the puzzle that could lead to the next CRISPR or the next Internet. Brilliant minds around the world are working tirelessly and passionately to solve these puzzles.

Do you know any of those individuals? Are you aware of the experiments they conduct? Do you know about the engineering marvels you use every single day?

I would argue that you don't or that you don’t know enough.

This platform aims to help change that. The mission ahead is to provide "micro information"—concise, digestible content that is engaging enough to spark your curiosity and encourage you to seek more, or simply enough to motivate and capture your interest without overwhelming. Sometimes in the sea of events happening daily around the globe, the feeling may arise that you do not do enough.

We want to introduce remarkable individuals, some of whom will certainly surpass our own intelligence. These could be potential role models and sources of inspiration who might change our lives. Many of these people operate under the radar of mainstream social media.

The goal is to create a community of people willing to share knowledge and experiences. The goal is to support new generations of students and curious individuals eager to explore exciting job opportunities, switch disciplines, or participate in fascinating projects that always require highly motivated people.

This platform will be composed of brief stories, or call it articles articles, designed for a 5-6 minute reading experience. The format is short enough to be a manageable investment of time, yet long enough to provide valuable insights for cognitive growth—significantly different from the endless scrolling of unfiltered material full of noise.

With this short story, this platform is launched. Join, freely, and from now on, the growth, learning and development can start.

Sincerely,